Maria Laura Devetach (born 5 October 1936) is an

Argentinian Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish ( masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, ...

writer for children.

Life

Devetach was born in

Reconquista, Santa Fe Reconquista is a city in the north of the , from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the General Obligado Department, and it has 99,288 inhabitants according to the . The city lies on a branch of the Paraná River opposite the city ...

in 1936 to a Slavic father and an Argentine mother who was very skilled with textiles. She has worked as an educator of both children and adults.Laura Devetach
Oxford Index, retrieved 6 February 2015 Devetach has published more than ninety books and many of these are for children. She was married to Gustavo Roldán who died in 2012 and they had two children. One of these children is a cartoonist named for his father. He has illustrated some of his mother's books.

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1936 births Living people People from Reconquista, Santa Fe Argentine children's writers Argentine women children's writers Argentine essayists Argentine women short story writers {{Argentina-writer-stub